Dramatic Literature

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• He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall. //permalink//
  Christopher Marlowe - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1594)
  
  
• Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
  In one self place, for where we are is hell,
  And where hell is must we ever be. //permalink//
  Christopher Marlowe - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1594)
  
  
• Hell is just a frame of mind. //permalink//
  Christopher Marlowe - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1594)
• I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. //permalink//
  Christopher Marlowe - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1594)
  • Pray for me! and what noise soever ye hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me. //permalink//
    Christopher Marlowe - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1594)
    
    
  • Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,
    That time may cease, and midnight never come. //permalink//
    Christopher Marlowe - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1594)
  • Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
    And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? //permalink//
    Christopher Marlowe - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1594)
  • When all the world dissolves,
    And every creature shall be purified,
    All places shall be hell that are not heaven. //permalink//
    Christopher Marlowe - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1594)
  • Why, this is Hell, nor am I out of it.
    Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
    And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
    Am not tormented with ten thousand Hells
    In being deprived of everlasting bliss? //permalink//
    Christopher Marlowe - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1594)
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